Zydzik Edward

Zydzik Edward, a sole proprietor operating from Phillips, Wisconsin, provides wolf capture, depredation investigation, and training services to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) Wildlife Services as a prime contractor on a specialized, single-source customer relationship. The vendor operates across 15 prime federal awards with no subcontract footprint, all issued by the same customer agency, competing entirely outside set-aside categories on full-and-open delivery orders and indefinite delivery contracts. The work falls under NAICS Hunting and Trapping (15 awards) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation — Other Wildlife Management (15 awards).

Zydzik Edward's customer concentration is absolute: USDA APHIS Wildlife Services accounts for 100% of recent awards and 100% of combined potential value ($245 thousand). The vendor holds three active IDCs with Wildlife Services — contract 12639521D0039 (6 task orders, $69 thousand combined potential value), contract AG6395C160125 (5 task orders, $45 thousand combined potential value), and contract 12639526D0026 (1 task order, $10 thousand combined potential value). Most recently, USDA APHIS awarded Zydzik Edward a new single-award indefinite delivery contract on May 4, 2026, with a ceiling of $49,962.00 running through April 30, 2030, immediately followed by delivery orders totaling $9,990 and $18,417 for wolf capture and depredation investigation services with performance in Rhinelander and Phillips, Wisconsin. Representative earlier work includes a $10,602.93 firm fixed-price delivery order in March 2023 and a $9,971.49 delivery order in March 2022, both for wolf research, monitoring, and capture support.

Activity has remained modest and level: one award per year in 2022–2024, rising to two awards each in 2025 and 2026. Two awards (combined potential value $28 thousand) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore face recompete. Total obligated dollars across all awards stand at $124 thousand (51% of the combined potential value ceiling). The vendor's entire federal footprint rests on a single-agency relationship with no diversification across customer agencies, no subcontract tier presence, and no participation in governmentwide vehicles or multi-agency IDIQs — making the relationship both stable (renewal under the same customer) and concentrated (zero business continuity if USDA APHIS terminates the relationship).